Saturday, March 1
Sat 3/01 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Raffi Garabedian quartet featuring Dahveed Behroozi, David Ewell, & Hamir Atwal.
Sat 3/01 7:00 PM Keys Jazz Bistro [498 Broadway San Francisco]
Amendola Vs. Blades with special guest Dan White of The Huntertones
Sat 3/01 7:00 PM Oakland House Show [Email roykiyo@gmail.com for address]
Ben Davis, Kanoko Nishi, and Paul Sakai Trio
Lenny Gonzalez and Erik Ellestad Duo
Kumi Maxson (and special guest)
Sat 3/01 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita
Sat 3/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Bridge Music Collective will showcase composers from across the country writing music for our quintet. These pieces are the result of our Call for Scores project with the goal of expanding the repertoire for this unique instrumentation.
Sunday, March 2
Sun 3/02 12:00 PM Opening Ears Concert Series [1026 Pleasant Oaks Dr]
Solos and a trio set featuring Jordan Glenn, Matias EA, and Ari Brown
Sun 3/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)
Tuesday, March 4
Tue 3/04 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Improvisation Workshop hosted by Lewis Jordan:
Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together.
Tue 3/04 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles
Thursday, March 6
Thu 3/06 6:00 PM San Francisco Public Library Main Branch [SPL Main Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102]
King of the Omniverse – Sun Ra and His Arkestra
Author Nicole V. Gagné offers a celebration of one of the 20th century’s master composer/musicians: Sun Ra, who led his big band the Arkestra for 40 years and took humanity on a never-ending trip through outer space and into dimensions unknown.
Thu 3/06 6:00 PM Exploratorium [Pier 15 Embarcadero at Green St SF]
Shapeshifters Cinema + Do-Over Music Series will present a collaborative, kinetic, multi-dimensional audiovisual reverie of improvised music and visuals for After Dark: Play of Light at The Exploratorium.
Thu 3/06 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Scott Amendola with Kai Eckhardt Trio @ Wyldflower Arts
Thu 3/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guitarist and Composer Aaron Larget-Caplan explores contemporary American compositions in ‘A Modern American Guitar Celebration.’
New solos and arrangements, a genre bending micro-opera, and a premiere for electronics and guitar that push the envelope of the guitar and performer and challenges the position of Art in today’s world.
American composers include the California connected: John Cage, Ken Ueno, and Daniel Felsenfeld, as well as California premieres by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Douglas Knehans, Ian Wiese, and Larget-Caplan.
Thu 3/06 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita
Friday, March 7
Fri 3/07 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound
Bruce Ackley – woodwinds / Darren Johnston – trumpet / David Michalak – Skatch ‘n Steel / Ben Davis – cello
opening set: MICHAEL P. DAWSON – electronics, flute
Fri 3/07 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita
Fri 3/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ben Goldberg and Scott Amendola have been playing music together for over 3 decades. Tunes, improv, who knows what’s going to happen, but their long storied history will for certain make it for an interesting evening. Both utilize electronics and have a deep love of Thelonious Monk. Stretching the boundaries of jazz, and improvisation, at one minute there could be a stream of sound. The next a composition. The deep intuitive nature of Ben and Scott can only make for an evening of deep, fun, and joyous music.
